LIVE, the LIVE Interactive VDR
Environment, allows a comfortable operation
of VDR and some of its plugins trough a web interface.

Unlike external programs, which communicate with VDR and
its plugins through the SVDRP interface, LIVE has direct
access to the internal data structures of VDR. This makes
LIVE very fast.

Additionally LIVE introduces an interface which allows the
direct integration of user interfaces for VDR
plugins. Currently this interface was implemented
for
the EPGSearch
plugin. A substantial part of the LIVE web interface is
based on this implementation. There exist plans to extend
other plugins (like taste, burn, femon and others) with
this interface too. LIVE works even when these
plugins are missing. LIVE detects the available plugins
and adapts its user interface accordingly. Therefor it can
happen, that certain functions appear and can be used only
when the appropriate plugin is activated in VDR.

This version of the LIVE plugin supports older VDR
versions. It still uses the old Makefile format and thus
can be used together with VDR versions older than
1.7.36. This will be the last stable version of LIVE
offering this kind of support. Future versions of LIVE
will work only with VDR version 2.0 and above.

The following overview lists the most important user
visible changes on LIVE since the last stable version.

The major new features have been contributed by LIVE
users. We are are very happy to embrace the contributions
and thank everybody who helped in
improving LIVE.

The names of the developers are listed in the version
history, which can be found in the LIVE-Git tree.

A new simultaneous multiple channel
schedule has been added. The channels can be
grouped according to own preferences. The schedule for a
channel group can be displayed on configurable time
i.E. prime time.

The recordings page has been lifted and
got some new features:

HTTP streaming of recordings if a
version of tntnet > 1.7.0 is available. You browser
still requires the mozilla-vlc plugin.

More than one recording can be deleted at
once.

More than one recording can be moved or
copied to a new location at
once.

The list of recordings can
be filtered either for names or
with regual expressions.

All recordings folders can
be expanded or collapsed at
once. The main benefit of this feature
unfolds in combination with the filtering feature.

Works with the VDR developer versions (1.7.x) and is
prepared for the upcoming VDR 2.0 release.

Supports the new TS recording format.

The channels got numbers.

Added support for IPv6.

You can connect to LIVE via SSL.

Enhanced support for EPG images which
are supplied by external tools (e.g. tvm2vdr.pl).

Tntnet provides basic web server functionality for LIVE.
Cxxtools is required by Tntnet.PCRE is used for the
search with regular expressions on the recordings page.*) Boost provides TR1 C++ extensions and is required only
when compiled with GCC < 4.1.